Dance, Create and Celebrate at Sensasian

Plus Inspiral Carpets at the Sugarmill (28/06), guided cruises across Trentham Lake (from 14/07) and catch comic Paul Smith at the Regent (26/07 and 11/11)

WHAT’S ON/THINGS TO DO ✅

HIGHLIGHTED ⬇️ (FULL EVENTS LISTINGS BELOW)

• 🎉 Sensasian Sensation! various dates, times and locations. South Asian arts and culture festival Sensasian returns this summer with its biggest programme yet, expanding across four venues and running until February 2027. Organised by Appetite with partners including the New Vic Theatre, The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery and Arts Keele, the festival will feature film, music, dance, storytelling and creative activities. Highlights include a free screening of acclaimed Pakistani film Joyland on 03/07, a dedicated Sensasian zone at The Big Feast on 29/08 a performance by the Inner Vision Quintet in November, and a celebration of Kathak dance from Pagrav Dance Company next February.

Aunusthan by Pagrav Dance Company. Pic credit: Simon Richardson

• 🏺Make a Bottle Oven. 18/07, 10am-12pm & 1pm-3pm, Gladstone Pottery Museum. What could be more Stoke than creating your own ceramic bottle kiln? Everyone is welcome to this relaxed, beginner-friendly bottle oven diffuser workshop; pieces will be ready to pick up six to eight weeks later. Admission £35 (includes tea, coffee, cake and free admission to the museum).
  

• 🎭 Exploring Friendship, Gal Style. 05/07-06/07, 4pm & 7pm, Drop City Books. Young girls tackle adults’ friendship dilemmas through dance, song, debate and brutally honest wisdom at the Friendship Lab. Tickets £15; £5 concessions.

  

  Friendship is explored through art at Drop City Books on 05/07 & 06/07

• 🎸See the Inspiral Carpets. 29/06, 8pm, the Sugarmill. There are still tickets left for Madchester legends the Inspiral Carpets, who Noel Gallagher once famously roadied for. They’re supported by Swansea band Trampolene. Tickets £30.

• 😀 Laughs with Paul Smith. 29/07 & 11/11, 7.30pm, the Regent. Following sold-out runs and viral success across the globe, Paul Smith is hitting the road again with his new tour, Happy, where he takes his trademark razor-sharp observations, and laugh-out-loud true stories to a new hilarious level. Tickets from £51.66.

  

  Comedian Paul Smith is at the Regent on 29/07 and 11/11

• 🛳️ Guided Cruises Across Trentham Lake. 24/07-14/08, 11am-12pm. Set sail across Trentham’s Capability Brown lake and check out one of the largest heron and cormorant nesting and roosting sites from the water plus signs of the resident beavers from all-electric catamaran, Miss Elizabeth. Tickets £7 per person, £5.60 for platinum and gold members; under 3’s free.

EVENTS LISTINGS

• Parkrun, every Saturday at 9am at Hanley Park; Trentham Gardens; Cannock Chase; Lower Milehouse Lane, Newcastle; Birchall Playing Fields; Isabel Trail, Stafford

• Heritage Walks with the Red Haired Stokie, various dates

• Make & Bake, ongoing, Mitchell Arts Centre

• Girls Who Walk Stoke, ongoing, various locations

• Beth Johnson Ramblers for the Over 50s, various dates

• Queerquest, ongoing, Staffordshire Moorlands

• Open mic nights, various dates, Darcy’s + The Woodman, The Beehive Inn, The Windmill Werrington, Foxfield Arms, & The Victoria

• Potteries Centre Events Series, ongoing, Potteries Centre

• Throw a Pot and Pottery Painting, ongoing, Kiln at Number 12

• Throw a Pot Sessions, ongoing, LoveClay

• What’s In Store at the V&A Wedgwood Collection sessions, every Wednesday

• Lunch at Stoke Minster, every Thursday

• Fresh Food Friday, Biddulph Town Hall, every Friday

• Guided Walks in the Peak District, Various, Multiple (Peak District)

• Titanic Brewery Tour, multiple dates, Titanic Brewery

• Spitfire Comedy Open Mic, multiple dates, Old Post Office, Burslem

• World of Wedgwood Artisan markets, every second Sunday of the month

• Electric Tentacle Electronic Music Open Mic, multiple dates, Artisan Tap

• Honeybox Live, various dates and locations

• Middleport World Cup Trail, until 19/07, Middleport Pottery

• Strange Stoke, 19/06, Artisan Tap

• Stoke on Trent Pride, 20/06, Hanley Park

• Word of Mouth Over 30s Festival, 20/06, Trentham Estate

• Father’s Day at Emma Bridgewater, 21/06

• Tree Identification Walk, 23/06, Ford Green Brook South

• Community River Monitoring Walk, 24/06, Bucknall Park

• Claywork Stoke, 27/06, Gladstone Pottery Museum

• Bolton Gate Arts Summer Market, 27/06, Bolton Gate

• Contemporary Collage Workshop, 27/06, Silk Mill House

• Pride in the Moorlands, 26/06-28/06, various locations

• Inspiral Carpets, 28/06, the Sugarmill

• Dragonfly Identification Walk, 29/06, Ford Green Brook North

• Derren Brown: Only Human, 30/06-04/07, Regent Theatre

• Living History Festival, 04/07, Middleport Pottery

• Bombay Express, 04/07, 01/08, 15/08 & 22/08, Churnet Valley Railway

• Waitress, 06/07-11/07, Regent Theatre

• Stoke Craft Brew Festival, 11/07, King’s Hall

• Lord of the Dance: 30th Anniversary, 13/07-15/07, Regent Theatre

• Wildlings Play Group, 14/07, Ladderedge Country Park

• ABBA dayparty, 18/07, the Sugarmill

• One Big YMCA Day, 24/07, YMCA

• Trentham Lake Discovery Cruise, 24/07-14/08

• Burlesque The Musical, 25/08-29/08, Regent Theatre

• Paul Smith, 29/07 & 11/11, Regent Theatre

• Romeo & Juliet, 30/08 & 31/08, Trentham Estate

• Peppa Pig’s Big Family Show, 07/08-08/08, Regent Theatre

For more events, check out our comprehensive What’s On list.

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